The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Oct. 26, 1978 ELEVEN
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Wheat League urges farmers to
use 1979 farm program
The Oregon Wheat Growers
League is encouraging farm
ers to take part in the 1979
federal farm program.
"It's a 'now' program"
aimed at improving prices by
reducing production and esta
blishing a reserve of grain,
said Stan Timmermann, Pen
dleton rancher.
He is chairman of th OWGL
farm programs commitee and
past chairman of the same
committee for the National
Association of Wheat Grow
ers, By not participating in the
program, a farmer stands to
lose eligibility for loans and
deficiency and disaster payment.
The sign-up deadline for
participating in the 1979 pro
gram has not been set but is
expected soon, said Martin
Buchanan, Spofford, chair
man of the state ASCS
committee which administers
the federal farm program.
ASCS is the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service.
"We've given considerable
authority to county ASCS
committees," Buchanan said.
"The reserve program is
working," he said, and Tim
mermann agreed.
The reduction of production
through the 20 percent set
aside program and the
reducing of wheat available
for sale by use of the reserve
has increased wheat prices,
Timmermann said.
Wheat in the reserve is
released after three years or
when wheat prices reach a
trigger point, which is a
national average of $3.29. The
recent national average price
for wheat has been $2.82.
Timmermann said that be
cause of the farm program,
those who participated soon
will receive deficiency pay
ments of about 50 cents per
bushel of production.
But only slightly more than
23 percent of Oregon wheat
land came under the farm
program in 1978. The wheat
league wants to see this
increased.
"Oregon didn't help a bit" in
making the national program
work ih 1978, Timmermann
said.
BMCC livestock team
having winning year
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Fed. crop insurance
deadline is Oct. 31
The Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation is reminding area
farmers that the closing date
for applying for wheat and
barley insurance for 1979 is
drawing near. The final date is
October 31.
Present policyholders are
reminded that the last day
changes can be made in the
election price for wheat and
barley for the 1979 crop year is
also October 31. Farmers
interested in wheat or barley
insurance or policyholders
who wish to make a change in
the election price should
contact the Pendleton Office
located at 1229 S.E. 3rd Street
or telephone 276-3811 Ext. 437.
The Corporation also wishes
to inform wheat and barley
policyholders that if harvest of
the 1978 crop will not be
completed by October 31,
please notify the Federal Crop
Insurance Office serving your
area by such date.
S mouse farm up for
state award
The team that will name the
Oregon Wheat Growers Lea
gue conservation man of the
year has completed its work.
The announcement of the state
winner will be made at the
League's convention in Port
land on Dec. 5.
The program honors farm
ers who put unusual effort and
cash into preserving soil and
water preventing erosion. The
program is a joint effort of the
wheat league and the John
Deere Company.
Candidate farms visited by
the selection commitee in
clude those of Mike and Ken
Kortage, The Dalles; Marion
Weatherford, Arlington; Ken
neth Smouse, lone; Bud
Schmidtgall and Bob Miller,
Athena; Rodney Rolfe, Grass
Valley; Grant Henderson,
Summerville; Ken and Gary
Harris, Madras; and Earl
Kennell, Monmouth.
Livestock judging teams at
Blue Mountain Community
College have had a very
successful year so far in team
competition, according to
Paul Davis, judging adviser
and BMCC technical agricult
ure instructor.
On Oct. 18 the judging team
took first place in overall
points at the Treasure Valley
Judging Contest at Treasure
Valley Community College in
Ontario. The judging team
took first place honors in the
beef, sheep, horse and swine
divisions.
Cheryl Bunch, BMCC stud
ent from Baker, took overall
honors for high point contest
ant at the TVCC contest.
Another first place award was
won by BMCC's judging team
at. a Chico State University
contest, October 7, in Chico,
Calif. The BMCC team took
first place out of 23 competing
teams in carcass judging. The
second BMCC team took
fourth place in the same
contest.
The judging team is plan
ning a trip to the Cow Palace
in San Francisco for the 1978
Grand National Community
Oct.
College Judging Contest,
27 and 28.
Members of the BMCC
judging team include: Doug
Ansotegui, Heppner; Glen
Barrett, Klammath Falls;
Cheryl Bunch, Baker; Bill
Pound, Pendleton; Caryl
Reid, Prineville; Krynn
Robinson, Heppner; Paul Tay
lor, Canby; Sue Truscott,
Baker and Hoby Wilhelm,
Arlington.
Flu shots
to be given
The Morrow County Health
Department will be adminis
tering flu vaccine to anyone
over age 26 who wants it at a
cost of $2. These flu shots will
be available at the Heppner
Neighborhood Center on Oct.
30 from 7 to 9 p.m . and on Nov.
8 from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Further information may be
obtained by calling 989-8256.
1 I fT Heppner Ranger District Silviculturalist Charles Rouse inspects fruits of this year's
In tlXe OCL bumper seed cone harvest, drying in a warehouse at the Forest Service compound in
Heppner. Cones collected this year should provide seed for as many as three million new
trees.
District cone collection will
produce 3-million seedlings
A whopping 380 bushels of
seed cones from ponderosa
pine, Douglas fir, grand fir,
Engelmann spruce and lodge
pole pine were collected from
trees in the nearby Umatilla
National Forest during the
Heppner Ranger District's
successful cone collection pro
gram, which ended Oct. 13.
Local people gathered the
seed cones from trees and
squirrel caches throughout the
National Forest land. Cone
suppliers this year included
Don and Judy Kenison and
Ernest Garrison of Heppner,
Richard and Irene Jones of
Condon, and Charlene Papi
neau of Lexington.
Later this fall the cones will
be shipped to Bend, where the
U.S. Forest Service nursery
facility there will extract seed
from the cones and provide
the storage. The seed will then
be used to grow seedlings
which will be planted in the
Heppner Ranger District to
reforest logged-over areas
and burn sites.
Heppner district officials
said this year's seed cone
harvest occurred during a
peak seed producing year,
which occurs only once every
five to ten years.
This year's harvest should
yield about 500 pounds of tree
seed, from which 3 million
seedlings can be grown.
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